And finally, here's my schedule for Sunday — two weeks from today! — at Comic-Con International in San Diego. If for some bizarre reason, you might want to attend a panel that doesn't involve me, the entire Sunday schedule you can be found here. And I should mention that what's left of the National Weather […]
Did you ever wonder what a Three Stooges short would be like without Moe or Larry? Probably not but if by some chance you did, here's a possible answer. This is the 1946 comedy short, Mr. Noisy. Its star, Shemp Howard, was making comedy shorts for the same studio — Columbia — with a lot […]
I had something set up to tell me when we passed the 33,000 mark in the number of posts on this blog but it didn't work. In case anyone's interested, as of this post, we have 33,310 posts on this blog, of which 266 are "encore" reruns. This blog started on December 18, 2000 so […]
I haven't seen the new Superman movie but Rex Huppke has and he has a lot to say about this assertion that it's "woke." […]
So…what are you doing two weeks from today? Here's what I'm doing two weeks from today. And here's where you can see the entire schedule for Saturday… • SATURDAY • Saturday, July 26 – 11:45 AM to 1 PM in Room 6BCF QUICK DRAW! It's the battle you wait for every year, as three speedy cartoonists cross […]
J. Williamson sent this one to me… On one of the Walt Kelly panels at Comic-Con a few years ago, you started to tell a story about how Milton Caniff was assisted by a letterer and I think another artist on his strip but you got sidetracked and never told it. Could you tell it […]
And here's the The Ashatones Barbershop Quartet again. These guys are real good but they don't seem to have done their version of "For the Longest Time" yet. I wonder what's keeping them. Until they do, you'll have to settle for their take on another Billy Joel song. This is "Uptown Girl." About the time […]
Here's another day's worth of what I'll be doing two weeks from today. The entire day's schedule can be found here. • FRIDAY • Friday, July 25 – 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM in Room 10 THE GROO PANEL Since 1981, Groo the Wanderer — the creation of cartoonist Sergio Aragonés — has wandered from comic book […]
This Sunday's matinee performance of Boop! The Musical is its last, at least on Broadway. The folks behind the show have dropped some online hints that this is not the end. Assuming they're not bluffing, this could mean several things — the release of a "proshot" video, a national tour or (least likely) moving the […]
Comic-Con International starts in two weeks and the convention has just posted the schedule for Thursday Programming. Tomorrow, they'll post the schedule for Friday Programming and on Saturday, they'll post the schedule for Saturday Programming and you might be able to take a wild guess and figure out when they'll post the schedule for Sunday […]
Reporter Heidi McDonald, who covers the comic book industry, covered the brief time that a street in Jack Kirby's old neighborhood was named for him and wonders what we have to do to make it permanent. […]
Glenn Kessler, who must have been away on vacation because it's not like no politicians have said anything false for the last week or two, reviews some of the things Trump and his mob have been saying about the B.B.B. that do not correspond to what's actually in the B.B.B. Daniel Dale of CNN lists […]
I haven't seen the new Superman movie. I seem to have fallen off the list of people who've worked for DC Comics — which I've only done since around 1970 — who get invited to premieres. So I can't say if it's "too woke," which is a complaint I see online a lot today. The […]
Remember this guy? That's Jon "Bowzer" Bauman of the retro rock group, Sha Na Na. What's he doing now? Well, he was a game show host for a while and he occasionally does "oldies" shows. But he has a new main profession and you won't believe what it is. […]